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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

Edit. That goes for everyone in the thread

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11 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

 

It’s honestly fine in my opinion. But I’m also “handy” and fix up my stuff if I want to

 

I autocrossed my old corolla... actually wasn’t too bad. Thing was slow off the line tho with that auto haha

 

the best way I can describe older, cheap car suspension is “not comfortable, but not stiff” it’s hard to explain. It’s just kinda bad at everything

 

Kinda like an all-season tire

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10 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

Image result for light bar on miata

 

One of the first times I was driving on my own I was leaving the parking lot of an event after dark and a police officer directing traffic was yelling at me. Took me a while to realize he was yelling at me specifically and I just kinda drove off wondering what his deal was. Turns out I had my highbeams on and they were at eye level for him.

my opinion is worthless but i'm going to give it anyway because this is the internet

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9 hours ago, RevoltTrain said:

Local shop has been up to something

-snip-

 

what's wrong the 5.2L V10? lol

Or is this just a "LS swap all the things" kinda move?

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55 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

Kinda like an all-season tire

pretty much. I had gotten some better tires at one point for that corolla and it made a huge difference as well.

I still wish I had went for the RE-71R's when I got tires for it. would of been sooo much slow car fast lol. I couldn't believe the difference in going from "just summer tires (Bfg sport comp-2's) to RE-71R's when I got a set for the miata...

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12 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

or this..

You know it's a serious flashlight if it has active cooling :D 

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4 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

You know it's a serious flashlight if it has active cooling :D 

I don't know who decided that thing needed to exist but I love it

 

If i was rich I would buy one xD

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1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

I don't know who decided that thing needed to exist but I love it

 

If i was rich I would buy one xD

I'm picturing the first review:

 

5 stars

 

Make your neighbors and everyone within a 1 mile range think it's daytime at 2 am

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9 hours ago, Bitter said:

Is this an OK thread to share a twisty road driving video? I've got a couple of them from my dash cam in OKish quality.

If you did illegal things you're going to JAIL buster.

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4 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

If you did illegal things you're going to JAIL buster.

Or worse: tell his mother!

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14 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

So there’s this one guy who must be completely convinced I drive with my brights on (in a Miata, mind you) 

 

We always cross paths. He flashes lights at me. I quick-flash to him just as a kinda “hey the brights aren’t on” (and really I’m 2 inches off the ground and they are factory halogens...they aren’t that bright)

 

so im thinking I must be the first car he passes for a while or something and his eyes get used to the dark before I go by him. 

 

Well today I guess he saw me coming down the road, so he intentionally turns his brights permanently on. Kept them on after me briefly flashing him. I can hardly see (again I’m like 2 inches off the ground), but I can see the edge of the road on the right and there’s no one behind me, So I turn my lights completely off. He STILL Leaves his brights on. I turned my lights back on after passing him but i couldn’t help but laugh at how ridiculous it was

 

Like seriously dude? Lol. He’s in like a Jeep Compass or something with LED’s 

 

 

Makes me want to get one of those 30,000 lumen flashlights and hold it out the window next time someone does that xD 

 

yes,  you could also just get a bright ass light bar .. .cause a autox miata with a light bar would be amazing 

1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

what's wrong the 5.2L V10? lol

Or is this just a "LS swap all the things" kinda move?

probably the LS ALL THE THINGS move 

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Driving a lowered car these days is hard. I constantly think I'm getting flashed at from behind, but it's actually just a big ass SUV with crazy bright factory lights, hitting a dip in the road.


 

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3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

what's wrong the 5.2L V10? lol

Or is this just a "LS swap all the things" kinda move?

It's a baby V10.

Come Bloody Angel

Break off your chains

And look what I've found in the dirt.

 

Pale battered body

Seems she was struggling

Something is wrong with this world.

 

Fierce Bloody Angel

The blood is on your hands

Why did you come to this world?

 

Everybody turns to dust.

 

Everybody turns to dust.

 

The blood is on your hands.

 

The blood is on your hands!

 

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do any car manufacturers provide an MTBF for the cars they produce?

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3 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

If you did illegal things you're going to JAIL buster.

I did nothing, NOTHING! (old Hogan's Heroes reference)

 

Ok, I won't share the mini togue.

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19 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

do any car manufacturers provide an MTBF for the cars they produce?

I read the one for Peugeots is a couple thousand clicks. Not sure what clicks is but there you go. 

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19 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

do any car manufacturers provide an MTBF for the cars they produce?

Probably not publicly. 

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12 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I did nothing, NOTHING! (old Hogan's Heroes reference)

 

Ok, I won't share the mini togue.

you could post a video of you "Allegedly" doing whatever you did :ph34r:

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5 minutes ago, RorzNZ said:

I read the one for Peugeots is a couple thousand clicks. Not sure what clicks is but there you go. 

inb4 it's 2000 wheel rotations

5 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Probably not publicly. 

shame

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22 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

inb4 it's 2000 wheel rotations

Seems to be that way lol

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31 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

you could post a video of you "Allegedly" doing whatever you did :ph34r:

I could send it in PM later, but the sentiment here seems to be against that which is fine.

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3 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I could send it in PM later, but the sentiment here seems to be against that which is fine.

LMAO don't worry I shared a video of me taking a video while driving. If you're not a bad driver its not hard to get on your phone for a sec while driving, just don't go overboard.

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No I don't phone while driving, ever. Its far too distracting for me to manage splitting my attention like that. I have a dash cam in both my cars, figure it'll help me fit in when the Russians take over. :lol:

But seriously dash cams are great, everyone should have one absolutely.

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1 hour ago, Bitter said:

I could send it in PM later, but the sentiment here seems to be against that which is fine.

was a joke

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18 hours ago, RevoltTrain said:

Local shop has been up to something 

 

but why

"an obvious supporter of privacy"

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